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FACTS FOR THIE CURIOUS.
Th^ colored vote in this country numo
berm about 1,000,000 ballots.
The Emperor Caligulus had a costly
par collar made for his horse.
Painting in oil was not discovered
dstil l30. I'core this the colors were
aise.l with a kind of glue.
The stranger in Pekin is at flrst most
struck with the river life. It is calcu
taled that 25).000 people live in boats.
Half a century ago in Turkey it was
sessidered a shame for a woman to read.
To-aay two schools for girls in Constan- '
gbople have been established by the
sultan himself.
- The ancient Roman boys carried a case
divided into several compartments for
bolding their books, writing materials
ed other meessariei for school. It was
called a loeules.
On James Crowe's farm, a few miles
arth of Yankton, D. T., a large lake,
well stocked with fish, appeared in one
sight. Sev ral acres of land, in the cen
tee of which were grain and hay stacks,
sak several feet and water filled the
hollow.
A committee of Parisian doctors has
cblsenged Succi, the Italian faster, to
fast forty days in a French hospital for a
ctkeof $1,000, on condition that he re
veals the secret of his elixir, for which a
patent is guarantee:l, and that the ex
periment be repeatcd by two other per
Os
When the D :nes invaded East Anglia
k the ninth century. King Edmund was
taken prisoner, and led before the hen
tae chiefs. They offered him his life
ad liberty if he would give up Chris
tiuity and r ign under them. lie re
fused. "Cannot we kill you?" they
cried. "(annot I diet" answered he.
Bo they bound him to a tree and shot
him to death with arrows.
The statue of the Emperor Marcus
Aurelius, which has been standing in the
piazza in front of the Capitol at Rome,
s been taken in out of the weath_.r, to
which it has been exposed for 1.500
years without injury. It is now in the
capitol museum, and a copy of it stands
where it stool in the piazza. The Em
ner for a long time had a position in
unt of the Church of St. John Lateran,
where it was sup psed to be the portradt
et Constantine, the first Christian Em
pror. This mistake doubtless saved the
satue from destruction through the mid
de ages, when the anti-paan zeal of the
people caused the demolition of almost
every visible statue of ancient god or
Capital Punishment in China.
In (hina, writes a Chinaman in the
C.lsi. Jurit, capital punishment often
depends upon the whim of the officer of
the law. Here 1s an instance: Pen Ta
Rea, the Rear Admiral of the Yangtre
district was passing up that river and
bhance to overhear a quarrel between a
boatmen and a soldier over the matter of
two cash-the price of ferriageacross a
mall stream. The Admial took in the
situation. The so!dier had been ferried
over the stream, and then refused to y
the poor ferryman. There was a p ncple
Involved. A large number of soldiers
were looking on and apparently enjoying
the ferryman's rage at the loss of his
wages. An example was needed, and
the "Great Man," as his name signifies,
who was incognito, being on a tour of
peronal inspection, ordered the soldier
beheaded, which was done on the spot.
Willful murder, pirac and confirmed
thieves fall under the beheadsman ax.
Infanticide, however, is not included as
murder. The parent, by Chinese law,
has the right of life over his own child;
hence the practice of female infanticide.
Capital punishment can be met by
proxy and the law be satisfied. It is no
uncommon, therefore, when a man e
money is sentenced to death that he can,
by the use of money, secure a stay of
proceedings long enough to obtain a sub
stitute. '1 hs is done by making an offer
of one, two or more hundred "tfals"
(tunces of silver, about 1331 cents, our
standard) for a substitute. Some impe
esnious family, often having 500 or 300
members, as the patriarchal plan of do
restic economy prevails, will agree
smong themselves that they will furnish
a substitute for the proffered sum. Lot
is then east to determine the victim, and
the doomed man ace-pta his fate with
stoical indiffe:ene upon the ultra pre
destination theory thathis time has coe,
else the lot would not have fallen to him
itdividually. le accordingly presents
himself to the court, and the convicted
man die. by proxy, while the family of
the deceased enjoy the proceeds of the
rrangement.
As Impulsive Husband.
"And do you love me as well as ever,
Johnu" the wife asked of her somewhat
testy husband, after they had made up
subsequent to what is usually termed "a
little spat."
"Why, of course I do, sad better."
"Are you sure, darling."
"Sure; Of course 1 am. Hang it,
don't I tell you sot"
"Yes, but you are not deceiving met"
'Certainly not. What do you want
to aggravate a man fur"
"I am not aggravating you."
"Yes, you are, and I tell you plainly
that I love you madly, and if you ask
me that question again, I'm blessed if I
don't go out and stay out altogether. I
love you dearly, and now just shot up
or it will be worse for Jon. Asking me
if I love you, when I o to distraction.
Get out, yo.z idiot! You are nothing but
a fool anyway."
Wife subsides, highly delighted.
Boston Courier.
Airing Theo!r New Titles.
Chase and Wiggin, both of them fa
mos stutterers, belonged to the militia
in the old days when everybody in New
Hampshire was in the militia, and the
oraizion was minl ctitious. Chase
.Wiqin l hap d to be ranking
Captansu m one o these paper regiments
at a time when the Colonel of the regi
meat died and the Major moved out of
the State. In the due course of official
red-tape Wiggin received his commission
as Colonel of the regiment and Chase as
Major. loth men were considerably
"set up" by their new titles, and astur
ally felt like apprising the whole village
of the promotion; but they were digni
led men, and of coursedidn't care to go
around telling everybody. So Chase
started out. and went from one store to
another, poking in his head just far
enough to my:
"H-h-h-hev you seen Cc-c.-colonel
J--j-j-' Esk Wh " ,
Nobody ha seen him, but everybody
ce aght the new title.
And presently Wiggin started in a
similiar pilgrimage through the town.
Thrusting his head through the door of
the irst grocery store he came tohe stut
"'lh-h-ha-sa-ave you seen M-m -n
major Jim Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-a-a-a-ase!"
Of course they had seen Major Jim
Chase, and so informed him, and by the
time he overtook the Major at the end of
the village and had congratulated him
war.ily the appointments had been,o a
to spak. officially gazetted throughout
the town of Exeter.-stoe Reard.
A Symptem of Leacy.
They met.
"'o you are still oa the invalid lBtf"
,Alas, yes, and I have taken gallons
of medicine."
"Perhlaps you took too mueh medi
cir.e. '
"Well, I've tried everything. Last
summir I tried sea-bathing and now I
am trying e ectricity."
'.*o wonder you are in bad health
after going through salt and battery."
And then as the awful truth dawned
upon them, they both burst into maniac
laughter and fed from the scene.
Rumb!..
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Superstiteio.
Omaha Man - "Going to put up some
fences, eh? By the way. I noticed the
other day that in Hindoostan a farmer
wont even build a fence without con
sult ng a priest."
Nebraska Farmer--"What's that for?"
"They want him to Ix an auspicious
day, you know."
'What fools those heathens arel The
time to plant fence posts is when the
horns of the moon are down."-OOmsl
I e weeasab or lmIaUs.
The eeource of physical enoerg sad metal
ctivity, lathe blood. IAtthis become vitiated
with bile, or this and watery in eeouseueno
of Indigeetion andi n-esmtilatln of the
food. and an Interruption of the fuasties of
the body. and a let of stamlna flesh and
appetite ensues. Hoetatter's Stemaoh tlates
s a tonic specially adapted to restore all three.
beeams it assists digudtn ti d ase milatlio
uad rsemoves bile and other imprIties from
the clrculation. Pretectemdad strenthened
with this admirable defentrlvo InvLerat.tlthe
system defe innAuence flnmical to health, to
whieh, it unregulated and feeble, it would u
doubtedly seuceumb. Conettpatio, often an
obShtnate and ehronIesment. is entirely nr
moved by It; the lItverltdeys and bladder
roused from Inaction and a tendcy to tha -
matlim effectually counteracted. It also
eradioeates malarial dtisease.
baire aataip. a Na' 3ssww
Religion and temperauc3 will always agree.
Both are the sprouts of reason.
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